Maya Angelou Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
-
I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
-
Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
-
Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
-
You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
-
Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
-
I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
-
We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
-
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
-
Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
-
Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
-
I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
-
I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
-
Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
-
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
-
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
-
After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
-
Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
-
I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.
-
Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
-
There are three kinds of people I've found: those who think the universe is good, those who believe it's corrupt, and those who don't want to think about it any more than they can help. I prefer the first two.
-
If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.
-
I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
